Agreed. There have been some VERY particular issues that I have seen come up dozens of times in entirely unrelated threads because the poster(s) refuses to let it go.
I guess the RM can’t do anything about that. We cannot expect him/her to help. We are going to have to make important threads CAUCUS to stop the baiting. It’s infuriating to have to lock the Church doors, but there is no other way to keep the shouting bigots out.
I'm not so sure about this. Per the RM's description, the "Open threads are a town square. Antagonism though not encouraged, should be expected. Posters may argue for or against beliefs of any kind. They may tear down other’s beliefs. They may ridicule."
Yet many of the Catholic-topic threads degenerate into a "riot" quickly, beginning with a "mob leader" commenting in and pinging a sizable mob of the "usual suspects" to populate the threads with the same garbage (it was post 4 in this thread) - time after time after time - far from what one might expect from a real "town square".
Were this to happen in the "real world" town square... riot police would have been called in long ago to deal with the shouting bigots.
I admit... I have no additional solutions unless the RM is willing to tighten the definition of the "Open threads"
For now boycotting the Catholic-topic open threads and making liberal use of the Caucus and Ecumenic designations may be the best measure.
Post 4 hunh?
The SHOUTING PAPIST BIGOTS
BEGIN SHOUTING outrageousness in many of their
THREAD TITLES.
lol. Only if that town square were in Vladivostok or Havana.
Thank God Romanist suppression of dissenting beliefs has not yet co-opted this country as we've seen it work to do on this forum.